After two years, I still haven't found out how to delete the project I created in 2002... I've never really worked on it and don't plan to anymore.

I guess I'm flaky! :)

I would like to contribute to the opensource world after abusing it for so long. First, by installing Debian on my machine. Then, by helping the development efforts on Mono, which I think is great, being a fan of the .NET platform.

But I'm also a thinker (or I try to be, anyway). Outsourcing is bound to become a problem eventually, until we find a way to adapt (like we adapted when the computers came around... people ranted that computers were stealing their jobs). How are you supposed to become a project manager when you need experience for that job and those jobs are being outsourced (somebody here had an article on that recently)? Sure, you need public skills and personnality, but you still need those technical skills.

The answer: the opensource movement. Here is where we can find wisdom, knowledge and experience (no, no public speaking skills, sorry).

Wow... it's been a while! I remember, two years back,
telling nymia to keep up the good work with her diaries
entries.

Two years without keeping the community informed of my
doings, without even having a project! But you may know
how it is to be studying computer science or working for a
software company. When I get home, sometimes the last
thing I want to do is sit in front of yet another monitor.

So what's been happening with me? I got my undergradutate
degree last december and started a master degree in
computer graphics.

Do I have a project? Yes, I do!!
I love computer graphics and I thought the only way to get
all the basics rooted in my head was to create an open
sourced modeliser/renderer.. kinda like Maya.

I'll keep you informed about that, but most of my time is
spent studying or coding for my master degree project.

I've taken the sourcecode of glTron, another
Tron clone that looks really great and hope it will help me
a little in my quest for my first game ever! I decided to
use exclusively GLUT for the moment, but as soon as my
skills in Xlib programming get high enough, I'll try to use
that library instead of GLUT.

At work, I managed to fix a bug! But the fix created another
one. Grrrrr...

Finaly!!! I got to set up a proper homepage at my project's
website. It's very far from being completed but at least I
got ssh to work properly. I had to use ssh version1 instead
of ssh-2.x. Ah! I'm so happy right now! :)

How do we know our linux box has crashed? Could it be that
your computer's inputs have been disabled? That's funny.
Well, it's not. I've been trying for a few times now to
install ssh. I thought installing the first version would
fix my problem (can't login to shell.sourceforge.net). It
might, but I've yet to install it! I think my linux box is
afraid of it. I've got the latest Nvidia drivers for XFree
4.0.1 and I know both are a little buggy. I was switching
from my user account (running X and Netscape for
documentation on how to install ssh) to my two opened root
accounts (for configuration of ssh) and suddenly Crassh!

Guess I'll try again tonight but it won't be easy. You see,
I live with four female roommates. As you well know, women
tend to use such little devices, like phones, very often and
for an extended period of time. And since I'm using a
modem... 'Nough said. :)

Work: It's really bugging me (litteraly). I'm just a
coop student and I started to work at exactly the same time
as Corel Draw 10 was getting into the debbuging part of it's
release cycle. Shee! And there are sooo many I feel like I'm
a marine from starcraft in front big swarming sea of
zerglings!

You wouldn't believe how many issues we have!

My project:
I've begun to do some research. I've found three different
versions of the Tron game so that's a good place to start
looking. I hope to have my basic game architecture
planing done by the end of the week.

I've been thinking of doing a big "scrach book" on how my
project is going. If this is going anywhere, it could help
other people do whatever I'm trying to do right now from a
newbie perspective.

Some people seems to have it all in life: curiosity,
motivation, social life. They want to learn and they
are learning! I'm so jaleous of that kind of person!
I would like to be like that. This is one of my goal in life
and some people like Nymia are an inspiration to me.

Nymia, your
diary's entries are amazing! Keep up the good
work! You seem to be so happy and full of energy!

There really should be some kind of message service here...
I'd like to communicate with some people here and the
easiest way to do so is through our diary's entries.

- A good book on Xlib programming (tutorials are hard to
find. And I must admit I like the feel of a big hardcover
book sitting on your lap!)

- TIME!!!

I so much want to create my project but I still lack the
knowledge and time. So I guess it'll be slow going. But
that's all right, as long as I don't lose my motivation.

******************

I feel good today. I've been working on a bug in the text
engine of the upcoming CorelDraw 10 and I'm actually getting
somewhere. This is very good for my ego! I still have a few
problems, but it should be over in a few minutes.

Don't you all hate it when you get into a kind of depressing
phase in life? It happened to me during the last two days.
It's the kind of time where you just don't want to do
anything, or better still, be with your friends, drink a
beer with them and watch tv all evening. No talking. Just
their presence and something to focuse upon (i.e., the tv)
:)

I'm glad it's over!

You know, I figured last year that a man must go back to
it's roots in order to feel better. I like to be in the
company of other human beings, I like being outdoors, I play
guitar, and I relax. Hmmmmm... Ok, back to my regular
stuff!

I downloaded the ssh protocol from ssh.com two days ago and
didn't manage to configure it. The Readme file wasn't
helpfull at all and when I tried to run it I got an error
message that said I was running a pirated version of the
protocol. (I was trying to connect to shell.sourceforge.net)

Anyone owns a project on sourceforge and would like to help
me out on this? After all, I'm still a newbie in the linux /
open source world.

Hmmm... Seems like I have lost my apprentice status! I
didn't earned it, anyway. At least it'll be an extra
motivation for me to push forward into the realm of open
source. But it's kinda hard. I mean, I work all day long in
front of a computer, spliting my brain in half trying to
figure out a fix for some nasty bugs. The last thing I want
to do when I get home is to open my computer.

But it's calling me... Oh, the marvellous song it puts in my
head.

You see, I realized last week that to be succesfull in the
field you must put some hard work, learn things that you
wouldn't learn otherwise, create something new.

Aaah! What a great weekend I've just had. Nice weather and a nice hiking trail. What more could I ask for?

I just realised that MS windows doesn't support the ssh1 protocol and I need it to log into my shell account at
sourceforge in order to create my project homepage. I'll have to wait 'till this evening to get on my linux box and do
it all from there.